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DIY Water Bottle Labels

October 28, 2010 by Jenny Walters Leave a Comment

[singlepic id=272 w=240 h=240 float=center]With everyone pinching pennies lately, event planning has become increasingly focused on DIY elements. The happy upside to this shift has been that not only is this keeping personalized weddings affordable, it’s also making them one-of-a-kind!

There are times, however, when it really doesn’t make sense to do things yourself. Certain tasks can turn Do It Yourself projects into Definitely Irritate Yourself projects.

For example, if you don’t know how to sew it’s probably a disastrous idea to try to sew your own wedding dress. Likewise, if you’re a kitchen disaster waiting to happen, baking an elaborate cake is probably a recipe for failure.

DIY water bottle labels is another one of those projects that you can find endless tutorials and customizable templates for online. Tips for doing so range from buying waterproof paper to print on to printing the labels on your home printer and then adhering them to the bottles using packing tape.

What they fail to mention, however, is the sacrifice of quality you get when you try to print your own water bottle labels. There’s just no way that anyone’s home printer can compare to the printing capabilities of a commercial grade digital printer.

Additionally, printing your own labels and then adhering them with packing tape is a huge pain. Packing tape sticks to everything (including itself!) and getting it on straight so that it looks nice up-close is a very ambitious goal indeed.

DIY is lovely, when you can truly express yourself and take joy in creating something one-of-a-kind. Save yourself the heartbreak and hassle of printing your own labels, though, and let us handle that for you. You can still design a completely custom label, and stick the labels on yourself.

We’ll just take care of the printing, so you get all the creativity and none of the hassle!

Tips For Using Multiple Label Designs in Your Wedding Decor

October 25, 2010 by Jenny Walters 2 Comments

Using multiple designs in your wedding reception decor is a great idea! Not only does it eliminate the need to pick just one awesome design, it gives your guests a variety of labels to look at.

The picture above features the custom wine labels of a couple whose brother and sister-in-law went with two different designs for the wine they’d made for their wedding. The designs were in complimentary colors (black and white), but each label celebrates something different. The bold monogram of one (the design is called “Shells Wine Label/a>”, if you’re curious) proclaims the couple’s new last initial, and the photo on the other (“Sea of Sage”) shows off one of their cute engagement pictures.

To make this look work for you, find as many designs that you like and then share different information on each. Here are some ideas for bits of info to share on custom wedding labels:

Your engagement story. This makes a great label for the back of the wine bottle, and will give guests something fun to read while they’re at the table.
Trivia about the couple. Put a different fact on each label design, and choose five or six different designs. Guests will have fun tracking down all the different facts.
Engagement pictures. If you have more than one favorite engagement picture, share them on your custom labels.

No one ever said you couldn’t pick more than one design. Spice things up with multiple designs! Your decor will be varied and fun to look at as a result, and you’ll have a blast designing all the different designs!

One Man Wolfpack

October 21, 2010 by Jenny Walters Leave a Comment

In the words of the great Alan Garner (played by Zach Galifianakis) in The Hangover…

“You guys might not know this, but I consider myself a bit of a loner. I tend to think of myself as a one man wolf pack.”

If this sentiment resonates with you (or if you just really loved the movie), share your love with a full color bumper stickers! This bumper sticker also makes a terrific gift for any fan of the movie or of Zach Galifianakis.

You can order as few as just one bumper sticker, or you can order one for everyone you know. Our bumper stickers are waterproof, self-adhesive, and UV coated to prevent fading.

Share a smile and proclaim your loner status to the world with this awesome custom bumper sticker!

Halloween Hefeweizen, Anyone?

October 18, 2010 by Jenny Walters Leave a Comment

Poltergeist Porter, BOO! Brown Ale, Invisible I.P.A., Witches Wheat Beer, Spooky Stout, Halloween beers are all the rage! October 31 is coming up, and if you’re planning a Halloween party, check out our super-fun Halloween labels to make your party custom and creepy!

You can view our Halloween beer labels (note: These can be used for bottles of soda as well!).

We also have Halloween custom labels. Halloween custom labels are perfect for sealing goodie bags, labeling spooky treats and snacks, and decorations.

Of course, if you’re serving water to your ghosts and goblins, spook-ify the water with custom Halloween water labels. We have fun designs and colors that will perfectly match your fun Halloween decorations.

Of course, if you’re having a Halloween wedding, these labels are all perfect for your nuptials as well. Who’s to say you can’t toast your marriage with a couple bottles of Hallowed Halloween Nuptial Pilsner?

Whatever way you plan to spend Halloween, custom Halloween labels will help make your day and night all kinds of spooky fun!

Commercial Wine Labels

October 14, 2010 by Jenny Walters 6 Comments

[singlepic id=322 w=240 h=240 float=center]All winery owners know that the real sale of a bottle of wine starts and ends with the label. Everything about the label, from the big-scale stuff like the images to small-scale details like the font, needs to appeal to the consumer in order for that consumer to open his or her wallet and buy that wine.

This truth applies to all winery owners, big and small. The difference between large and small winery owners, however, is how much of their resources they can devote to their labels. It’s easy to get a winning label design if you can throw millions of dollars at a design firm.

But what about the small wineries? Are they limited to only what they can design and print in-house?

Absolutely not!

Bottle Your Brand is hands-down the best place to get professional, commercial wine labels printed quickly and well without paying a fortune for them. You can design your own wine label design and then have us print it, or you can choose from our diverse line of pre-designed label templates.

Our prices are low, our quality is high (our custom wine labels are self-adhesive, waterproof, and picture-perfect), and our service is fast. We enable small wineries (like the Garden Oaks Vineyard winery featured in the image above) to display their wines with confidence, with wine labels that shine!

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